Wow!!!

I had mentioned in my previous post about how some pretty WAY COOL things had been happening to me in the last week. People that I hadn't met before I had had come into my life, all with incredible stories of faith. As I've learned over the past year, adoption is ALL ABOUT FAITH!

Tonight was no different. In fact, It was so cool that I had to devote a post about it because I know Baby Kaz is going to think it's pretty cool too.

Sean is off to church camp until Saturday. I put him on the bus at church around 12:45 today. He went last year for the first time and absolutely LOVED IT! Last year I was crying when he left..this year I was excited for him. I spent the afternoon getting some shots at Passport Health Clinic and getting some medication for Traveler's diaharrea. ick-o-rama.

My sweet hubby called me and asked if I wanted to meet his boss and his wife for dinner at their favorite Italian joint. I hadn't eaten since breakfast, so I was all for it! We have been there with them before, and they always have the same waiter. He knows them, they know him, and they are regulars and have been for the past 2 years. Tonight, however, their waiter was on out for his birthday.

The waitress is at our table pouring wine and I am eating bread and said to the table "Shleep e Masla" which is my version of "bread and butter" in Russian. The waitress perked up said "what did you say?
I said, "Shlep e Masla" is Russian for bread and butter. She kinda look at me and I said "Do you speak Russian?" She said yes, and corrected me cuz you say the Shlep with that weird Russian throat gurgle thing.

Turns out, she is from Ubeksistan and she is very homesick for her mom that she hasn't seen for 6 years. She is saving money to go home to visit. She is going to USF and working at this restarant. She said her heart stopped when she heard me speaking Russian as she had been so homesick! So, I got show off "Ya gavaroo neemomoga par russki" (I only speak a little Russian) and I said spacceba (thank you) and Pajulsta (please) and spaquina noche (good night)

We traded emails and phone numbers. Her name is Alesia and I Have a new Russian tutor!
I really want to learn some basic Russian and she really needs some cashola for a plane ticket home. What a {win-win}!

What are the odds...we get invited out at the last minute, Sean is at camp, the "regular" waiter is out for his birthday, and she walks up just in time to hear my butcher "Shcleep e Masla?"

Another way cool thing--I had plans to go to Arkansas next week to visit my sister and then to California to visit my aunt and my Grandma was flying in from Arizona.
This was prior to the big "LOI" for August 1st.
I called my sister today to say I didn't think I could handle the California trip. I was too stressed and had too much to get done. She called me back later (she is going to California too, with her 2 boys, age 6 and 3) and suggested we blow off Arkansas, and cut the California trip short to go with her. We really need to see my Grandma while we can. I call Joe to ask him if he'd mind cancelling Arkansas, and he told me he was just about to call ME to tell me he'd have to join us way later in the week as work was insane.
Great suggestion by my sister-I had not even considered that.
Then-I get home,and have my new appointment from the USCIS for fingerprints for July 3rd. We would have been out of town for that appointment but now we're not.

I gotta have Faith Faith Faith, I gotta have Faith Faith Faith!